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 <h2><a href="design.html">Design</a> &gt; User Interface</h2>

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  <h3>Release Information</h3>
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    <th>Project:</th> 
    <td><a href="index.html">Longhouse</a></td> 
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    <th>Related Documents:</th> 
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     <div><a href="usability.html">Usability Planning</a></div>
     <div><a href="usability-analysis.html">Usability Analysis</a></div>
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 <h3>Overview</h3>

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  <dt>What are the most important facts that a developer should know
  about the user interface of this system?</dt>

  <dd><p>
    The templates for this system were originally obtained from the Google code project.  We tried to maintain
    the original UI as much as possible to make it easier for people to use.  This is going with the thought that
    the people that are using this system have used Google Code.  However, as you will notice we have made some, what
    we will call, improvements to the existing UI.  The most noticeable being the new form instructions.
  </p></dd>

 
  <dt>What are the ranked goals for the user interface of this system?</dt>

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    <li>Task support and efficiency</li>

    <li>Consistency and familiarity</li>
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  </dd>
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 <h3>Metaphors, Exemplars, and Standards</h3>

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  <dt>What existing systems have user interfaces similar to the UI you
  want to build? What specific aspects are similar?</dt>

  <dd>
   <ul class="sample1">
    <li><a href="http://code.google.com/hosting">code.google.com</a>: As mentioned 
      before our templates are taken from this site.</li>
   </ul>
  </dd>

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 <h3>Task Models</h3>

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  <dt>What types of users will use this system?</dt>

  <dd>See the <a href="user-needs.html">user needs document</a>.</dd>


  <dt>What types of tasks will those users perform?</dt>

  <dd>See the <a href="use-case-suite.html">use case suite</a>.</dd>

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 <h3>Technical Constraints / Operational Contextualization</h3>

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  <dt>What are your assumptions about the output devices?</dt>

  <dd class="sample2">We make very few assumptions about the user's screen or web
  browser, other than the assumption that they can view page
  somehow. We do assume that javascript is enabled.</dd>


  <dt>What are your assumptions about the input devices that you will use?</dt>

  <dd class="sample2">We assume only that the user has a standard keyboard and
  mouse.</dd>

  <dt>What windowing systems, UI libraries, or other UI technologies
  will you use?</dt>

  <dd class="sample2">HTML and CSS with GIF and PNG images.</dd>
  <dd class="sample2">Using Prototype and Scriptaculous for javascript</dd>
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